The Black Hills Expedition

New York, Aug. 9. - The Tribune cor_ respondent with the Black Hills expe dition senda the following by special scout to Port Laramie, dated Headquarters Black Hills Expedition, - miles southeast of Harney's Peak, Dakota Territory, Aug. 2d : The country which the expedition has traversed has proved to be one of the most fertile and beautiful sections in the üuited States. Indications of gold were discovered about a week ago, and withiu two days its presence in sufficient quantities abundantly to repay working has been established beyond a doubt. How large an area the gold section covers cannot be determined without further explorations, but the geological characteristics of the country, the researches of our prospectors, and all the indications point to valuable fields. 80 far we have obtained surfaco gold alone, üur miners hope yet to find a gold quartz lead. The expiration of the Sioux treaty will open to settlement a beautiful and highly productive area of country hitherto entirely unknown. Grass, water and timber of several varieties are found in abundance and all of excellent qualities. Small fruits abound, game is plentiful, the valleys are well adapted for cattle-raising or agricultural purposes, while the scenery is lovely beyond description. It may be called a new Florida, and it may prove to be a new Eldorado. The command is in good health, and the explorations are being rapidly conducted. The Hon. Day O. Kei logg, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a retired nierchant of prominence in his prime in Troy and New York city, died on Sunday last, at the age of seventy-eight years, at Fairfield, Conn. He was in hia early manhood a member of the New York Legislatura, and subaequently he held the public positions of Payinaster General on Gov. Seward's military staff, of mayor of Troy, and of United States Consul at Glasgow during the administration of President Fillmore, of whom he was a companion in boyhood and a life-long friend. To business and official capacity he also added marked personal integrity and purity of life, and the Eastern papers note the general respect in which he was held. Mr. Kellogg was the eldest son of Judge Charles Kellogg, one of the pioneer settlers at Ann Arbor, and the brother of Dor Kellogg, Mrs. S. T. Otis, and Mrs. A. A. Warden, of that town.-